Australian Healthcare Equipment Securely Connects Its Sydney And Melbourne Office Via A Cisco Virtual Private Network
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Australian Healthcare Equipment Securely Connects Its Sydney And Melbourne Office Via A Cisco Virtual Private Network
Australian Healthcare Equipment, trading as Murphy
Healthcare Furniture in Sydney and Hendicare in
Victoria, is an Australian company that has been
designing, manufacturing and supplying healthcare
furniture to aged care centres and hospitals since 1965.
Today, with a turnover of $15 million and more than
70 staff in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland,
the company not only sells its furniture Australia-wide,
but also exports it throughout Asia Pacific.
Their complete range of patient and resident furniture,
designed to ISO 9001 quality accreditation, is
manufactured at Sydney and Melbourne facilities. It
includes hospital and care beds, bedroom, lounge and
dining furniture and specialised healthcare equipment,
all of which can be customised to clients' requirements.
Australian Healthcare Equipment also assists clients
with the layout and colour scheme of furniture
and can provide on-site training to nursing staff
and maintenance.
In early 2002, Australian Healthcare Equipment was
facing a number of challenges. As a legacy of having
Melbourne and Sydney offices that were not closely
integrated and linked, the company was experiencing
costly duplication of effort and stock manufacturing,
leading to inventory control issues.
Scott Cutler, System Manager, knew this could
be avoided with closer integration and better
communication between the State offices.
For example, if one office received an order and the
stock was available in the other, the order could
be fulfilled more quickly and cost-effectively by
shipping the stock interstate.
So he was tasked with installing a centralised
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that
would provide more manageability and flexibility
company-wide....
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